Do you miss the web circa 1997?
I miss my life back in 1997...
>>54745806
you were a middle schooler
>>54745806
>Do you miss the web circa 1997?
Absolutely not.
>>54745840
>>54745847
why not? it was so simple back then
>>54745758
Can't believe he's still making music almost 20 years later.
His new song is pretty decent though.
>>54745758
god yes
Most people using the internet back then had half a brain.
>>54745852
Here's hoping we'll somehow still be alive to make this image relevant
>>54745822
>tfw peaked in middle school
>>54745758
Yes, lots. You actually need to have any kind of technical knowhow to connect to it.
>>54745864
i have never liked his music but that doesnt mean others dont i guess im cool with it so long as people are cool with me liking die antwoord
>>54745858
It was kinda shit.
>>54745847
Tell me more about Facebook and twitter...
>>54745907
You don't have to use them if you don't want to.
>>54745901
oh and its so much better now? io mean ther isnt even chat rooms anymore thanks to peadophiles
>>54745875
I fucking hope not, I wanna die as soon as possible
Slow internet
Malware everywhere
No adblockers
Shit browsers
Horrid looking websites
20 minutes to download a single song
Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
Chatrooms
Low quality porn
50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
No 4chan
No reddit
Don't miss it in the slightest
>>54745927
But there's eternal hell after that.
>>54745930
whats wrong with chat rooms?
>>54745927
I think under "we" he means the human race dipshit
>>54745926
>io mean ther isnt even chat rooms anymore thanks to peadophiles
You're basically in a chat room right now, if you hadn't noticed.
>>54745871
things people who didn't use the internet in 1997 say
>>54745930
>Malware everywhere
That happened later.
>>54745952
>this
>chat room
>not even ERP
>>54745950
Nothing, you're replying to a millenial.
>>54745930
>No reddit
>>54745951
Oh god, that's even worse!
>>54745930
>tfw staying up past bedtime to download Sims nude mods over dial-up
>>54745966
>millenial
Millenials love chatrooms idiot.
>>54745894
false information.
>>54745930
hahah fuckoff kid
god thats a shitty site, shitty UI, shitty UX. I dont fucking get it
>>54746056
>implying average person in 97' knew what serial ports are, let alone dial-up
The Internet was the wild west back in the 90's.
Truly glorious times we had back then. Now everything is tightly controlled and regulated.
>>54745980
>>54746074
reddit is an objectively better site for news and information than 4chan now.
>>54746082
You didn't need to know anything about ports to connect. ISPs gave you very simple instructions, it was pretty easy.
>>54746103
Only if you are part of the liberal lefty feminist cuck hivemind
>>54746127
Nice buzzwords junior
>>>/pol/
>>54745806
This.
But replace 1997 with 2007. Life was so much simpler when I was 13.
Nothing has changed, in fact, is getting kind of worse
Today:
Search engines pull from google instead of running their own bots. You cannot find the porn you were looking for because for some reason, google's algorithm sucks nowadays
>>54746178
>>54746162
Man, thats some scary ass shit
>staying up late on dial-up reading anime fanfiction
atleast I grew out of it, unlike some people on this website
>>54746103
but its not
how do you know where to begin or what sub reddit ladeedaa bullshit do you go to
>>54746103
>
>>54746190
Google "niche interest + subreddit"
E.g. "PCB subreddit"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/ first result
>>54746178
>Shit, I was only 8.
:O
>>54746188
>implying this whole board isn't fan fiction
>>54746188
>dialup
Man, runescape was the shit back then.
>>54746168
>google's algorithm sucks nowadays
This. Especially image search
>>54746136
>muh /pol/ boogieman
SJW feminist detected
>>54746168
>>54746212
Google is by far the most censored search engine, anyone who knows what they are doing stopped using it years ago
>>54746243
What are you searching that's censored on Google?
>>54746249
Anything critical about China's communist regime.
>>54746249
Anything that might even hint at copyright infringement for starters
>>54746212
How is it that image search is getting less and less accurate over time?
>>54745822
I was in first grade
>>54746322
jesus christ how old are you?
>>54746212
What logo is this??
>>54746030
>hearing a floorboard creek and quickly trying to cover your tracks
Post your face.
>>54746340
Rym
Fuck no. Even with SJWs the Internet is better now than it was back then.
>>54746338
People from 1997 are 18-19 right now, you know that right?
>>54745930
Kazaa didn't exist in 1997 kid
>>54746450
jesus christ i am old
oh well time to go kill myself
Nostalgia is a lie. The web wasn't better in 1997, you have just retroactively removed all the bad memories. This is only going to lead to ageism, trust me on this. Except you won't, go join some faux facebook circlejerk and keep reposting the same 5-10 images.
Here's some top tips you've conveniently left out as you meander down psuedo memory lane
>Browsing sites on sub 56K
>No videos above 300x300, download is 2-3 years, have to have a certain media player to view it that only each play one media format type
>No web standards, nobody obeying the few ones there are, sites consist of giant "CLICK HERE IF YOU'RE USING X BROWSER" and they have to make six copies of everything because browsers don't even honor standard html tags
>No competent search engines
Best of all there was no cheap tech yet. Cry and whine your irrelevant little ass off about how "normies ruined the net", then crack open that old best buy ad you keep masturbating to and actually read the prices and not just look at the pictures. Would you pay $3,000+ now for the most basic, entry level desktop? This isn't a workstation, it's garbage consumer hardware that barely lasted 5-6 years and even if it did, you were fucked because during your "golden age" of tech, it was impossible to buy anything at any time without it being obsolete. Keep in mind these are 90's dollars so it would be 4-5K we're talking about.
Most neo-luddites would insist this was a good thing because it "keeps the normies out". Again nostalgia is oh so perfect, you conveniently blot out your dad/parents had to drop his hard earned cash on this for everyone, to have it be worthless a year later and you remember it as being free and it just appeared one day. *You* were the normies that invaded the internet at the time, ask any eternal september fuck when they're not jacking each other dry. Instead, you call yourselves pre-smartphoners.
I miss geocities.
>>54746594
No you don't. Go download the torrent archive and actually browse it. Your memories have had 15 years to mold the shit you saw into something else.
>>54746582
I think it's a mix.
Some memories, even the bad ones, are pretty funny looking back on them now. I didn't block out all that stuff, but the amount I was able to tolerate was amazing compared to now where I get agitated when HD video won't load properly.
Chill.
>>54746621
>I get agitated when HD video won't load properly
>Chill
>>54746621
>Bad memories, looking back on them now, are pretty funny!
This is the "lie" that nostalgia teaches you to tell yourself. I've known victims of abuse talking about it as a positive experience, as long as it happened 20 years ago. Also seen veterans talk about getting shot as a positive experience. Yeah sure. Honestly whenever someone starts a story off with "Back then..." I just mentally replace it with "I've forgotten everything bad, ignore me"
>>54745930
>Slow internet
>20 minutes to download a single song
Essentially the same argument.
>Malware everywhere
It's a LOT worse nowadays.
>No adblockers
>Shit browsers
Not really needed when websites didn't have much content anyway.
>Chatrooms
>50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
>No reddit
All good things.
>Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
>Low quality porn
>No 4chan
These actually sucked.
>>54746638
It's a joke more than anything, dude.
Seriously.
>>54746653
Getting caught doing dumb shit with the 56k wire running through the house is, in retrospect, humorous to me, and even to my parents now. Sorry you equate your childhood with abuse.
Your memories, experiences, and associations with them aren't the same as everyone else.
>>54746658
>Downloading CP
>Good thing
>>54746658
Post is dangerously on the edge of being a 9faggot and calling everything harmful
The same could be said for film and television. Sure, the special effects and graphics are amazing now but the content has all gone to shit.
>>54746582
>>Browsing sites on sub 56K
No needed, except maybe for QuakeWorld.
>>No videos above 300x300, download is 2-3 years, have to have a certain media player to view it that only each play one media format type
Videos are overrated, also back then we had MTV
>>No web standards, nobody obeying the few ones there are, sites consist of giant "CLICK HERE IF YOU'RE USING X BROWSER" and they have to make six copies of everything because browsers don't even honor standard html tags
Pic related.
>>No competent search engines
For what exactly? Web rings and directories were enough.
>>54746713
simpsons lemon eating gif.jpg
90's internet was UseNet and IRC. I didn't need anything more.
>>54746713
Why stop with videos, let's also do pictures too. You cannot just cut out an entire subsection of media. Unless you are a nostalgiafaggot of course. Just call videos "harmful" to show your neo-ludditry so everyone can more quickly ignore you. Best way is the freetard way, pretend you care about this, and since there were no decent free formats back then, everything must be taken out and ruled away as if it didn't exist.
>>54745758
That's hilarious
I was playing Diablo in 1997.
>>54745822
I was 23 and we had our second kid.
>>54746995
>23 and we had our second kid.
I was playing shitty educational games in 1997 and would shortly become obsessed with simcity 2000
I should have been enjoying the golden years of Quake
>tfw you weren't alive in 1997
>tfw you're old enough to legally post on this site
I must have missed a lot
>>54747035
>I must have missed a lot
Not really. But respect your elders senpai.
>>54747007
Isn't too bad back then, you are a true cuck if that's you today though.
>>54747035
You didn't, it's just 25 year olds falling for the age meme trying to pretend their particular garbage they had when they were young wasn't garbage. When it comes to technology, the best time to have been born is always later, not before.
Baby boomers are going to die and/or stop "working" in their industries in the next 15-20 years and that will be a golden generation who can actually work with people without having to deal with the constant
>I didn't have this stuff when I was a kid so don't expect me to learn it xDDDDDDDDDD
>Kids nowadays, and their better technology, all "we" had at the time was some bullshit I only managed to learn after 30 years at it, fuck as if I can even attempt to change from that now
>>54747035
are you >>54746995's wife's son?
>>54747120
are you certain?
>>54747123
Fairly certain
As far as I know, my dad is dead
>>54747087
>>54747035
18 year old: Do not, under any circumstances, respect your elders. They exist only to sequester you. They are full of shit like you always have secretly thought.
How old people work:
>They make mistakes for 40-80 years
>Choose to call this "experience"
>You on your smartphone, google it (fukken kids amirite) and get information and along with it don't have a social disease that tells you not to listen to new information that isn't just made up fear/FUD
>Don't make the same obvious mistakes
>Start to have a better life at 30~ than they did at 50
>They get buttjello
>Try to give you shit for it
You wouldn't trust them with a car turning signal so why would you take their advice on major life and career decisions?
>>54745937
As long as it has free wifi I'm good.
>>54747107
today's internet is demonstrably better than it was in the 90s in many ways. not least of which being its fast and not dial-up. There's a lot more content, though it seems like the signal-to-noise ratio has gone down. e-commerce is an everyday thing instead of an exotic dream.
what's been lost was the wild-west experience. In the mid-90s government and law enforcement didn't really have any idea what this internet thing was. The DMCA wasn't a thing until 1998. You could just pirate stuff without worrying about crypto. People traded CP in AOL chatrooms. Nothing was tied to your real identity, nobody had figured out all the tracking shit they do today.
whether that means things have gotten better or worse is up for debate.
In 97 I was a high schooler that used Linux since 94. I don't miss the internet but I miss the hundreds of thousands I was making from knowing Unix in the early 2000s. Easy money.
>>54747107
Tell me again how Reddit is better than Usenet?...
>>54747195
What do you do now that makes you miss x$100k?
It was certainly better than now
>>54747155
Then who was phone?
>>54747190
>signal-to-noise ratio
This is a byword for "eternal september" which means "I think I'm better than you because I was here first". Never ever seen this posted without some holier-than-thou attitude.
>wild-west experience
No you just grew up and understand everything now.
>>54747177
That was fucking stupid and a waste of dubs.
>>54747225
Hardly would ever defend reddit but at least the entire site isn't drowning in its own ageism. 99% of BBS and IRC traffic past 2015 is how superior BBS and IRC is to everything else new simply because its users are unwilling to change
>>54747260
good question
>>54745871
somehow I doubt that
most people in any given group not based around "having half a brain" don't have half a brain
>>54747285
>_ism
shiggy diggy
>>54745806
>tfw i still had hope in 1997
>tfw i still had dreams
>>54745937
>implying this isn't hell
>>54747330
What do you have now
>>54746254
>>54745930
>Download CS 1.4 patch takes 5 hours
>It's 11pm
>Blast low quality Limp Bizkit music until 4am
>>54746162
>13 year olds from 2007 are now full grown adults
What in the fuck
>>54747159
underage b& detected. People are only really people between the ages of 25 and 45. Younger than that and they're too stupid and inexperienced to really know anything, and any older and they're too out of touch.
I didn't have internet until about 1999, so I'm not sure.
And my only memory of using the net back then was to buy stuff from Japan on ebay, so nothing has changed on my end.
>>54747375
>1997
Hopes and dreams
>2016
Dope and Memes
>>54747424
Ikr.
Wish I was still in school.
>>54745896
I have no clue what this means.
>>54747285
>99% of IRC traffic
what channels are you even in
most IRC users I see just use it alongside whatever other social media
as for BBSes (like, standard web forums, right? because no one fucking uses dial-in BBS services in 2016), why would they be touted as superior to everything else? It fills a different communication niche to most modern social media sites due to most boards focus on specific topics
maybe I just browse boards and channels where people aren't retarded (and that's really unlikely)
and it's not like they aren't particularly high-volume places
>>54747007
thats a quality gif
I miss the innocence that encompassed the internet back then, although I'm certainly glad the technology around it has matured significantly since then for the better.
I remember my first web search on Yahoo, which was simply "HORSE"
You know what came up? I can assure you it wasn't nagger dick like it would be today. Instead it was some angelfire-tier website about horses, probably designed in Publisher '97 and posted with FrontPage or some shit. Nevermind the fact that FrontPage might not have existed for at least another yet, it's irrelevant to the experience.
In fact it was the experiences of my youth and those growing up tinkering with computers which led me to get into the field of IT. I cruised through my degree and then all I get in return is sales work and bullshit crypto viruses and god knows what other pajeetware fires out of the asscrack of the dark net. I did not sign up for this shit. No, should have been an engineer instead. Or maybe even a god damn truck driver.
Fuck 1997. It was all a ruse and now I'm stuck being eternally made with my short sighted decision making.
>>54746995
>Being 41~43
>Being on 4chan
Anon...you need to get your life on track and stop being a manchild.
>>54746103
They're about as good as fox news
>>54747638
See you in 20 years senpai.
>>54747659
I've been here for 12 years already. What's 14 more?
>>54747638
What grown-up sites allow anon posting now? Most sites are jewish controlled.
>>54747652
Extremely accurate then
I miss 1997 because I was still playing doom, quake, and castle of the winds on pc, and (starting in 1998) pokemon on the gameboy. The best season of DS9 started in 1997. First Contact had just been in the movies. The only bad thing about the internet back then was dial up/phones and my parents getting mad when they wanted to call somebody. Also Columbine caused my mother to ban computer games for a month. I'm not sure if that was 1997 though, I think it was 1998.
>>54747673
Fuck, amazing uh?
>>54745852
>>54745852
I am exactly 1 billion years old then
>>54747673
>>54747704
I remember my brother sending me all kinds of WTF pic's in skype and msn all the time (he was living in the US, I was in the EU), with random numbers as names, took me a while to figure it out where they where from, he would not tell me. I was like, wtf, a new english image board?! Feels like yesterday, actually it was more like 04-06'
>>54747725
Similar story, I was real young at the time, back in the tail end of 2003. A friend of mine kept alluding to some anime-focused image board. Eventually got a link to it and I've been a horrible degenerate ever since.
>tfw no more Happy Negro
>tfw no more Cock Mongler
>tfw no more Waha
>>54746582
>No videos above 300x300, download is 2-3 years, have to have a certain media player to view it that only each play one media format type
man, I don't miss this
tiny, ugly, 160x120 Cinepak encoded video that took literally an hour to download and was like two minutes long, and took more space than a 1280x720 webm at middling-low quality
and anyone who used the RealPlayer formats should have fucking killed themselves, what a shit piece of software, was probably the first actively bad piece of software I'd used, rather than merely deeply flawed
>Would you pay $3,000+ now for the most basic, entry level desktop?
or this
admittedly, things got a shitton better on that regard by the time 1997 rolled around, and you could reasonably get an entry-level machine for sub-$1000, a $2-3k machine would be entry level in 1992 or '93
Would that sub-$1k machine it be obsolete in a year? Sure, but you needed a machine now, and it'd be pretty useful for the next four years, and vaguely (if not terribly) useful for four years after that, and it's not like the $2k machine would have much of a longer useful life.
The absolute best thing about tech today is just how fucking cheap computers and shit have become. You can literally get a machine that'll do most shit a normalfag would want to for $200, apart from gaming, and you could even (with minor patience) do shit like video editing on in far better than you could on a high-end rig from '97.
Really, most of the things I miss from that period are the aesthetic of things, big and chunky and futuristic in a different way. The actual things themselves are quite literally objectively worse. The two popular consumer OSes of the time (Windows 95, System 7) were unstable pieces of shit. Clock speeds were garbage. Devices were bulky and heavy. Cellphones were barely beginning to become common, and wouldn't really become ubiquitous until around 2003, and living without a cell was a right pain.
>>54747673
god, thinking about the fact that I've been here for a decade is actually making me feel ill
I miss playing aeon of strife wc iii and quake but that was later than 1997 only got internet after 1999 I remember my first time browsing 4chan and being grossed out by gore threads but the internet was pretty shit back then, we didn't have normies and sjws taking the internet, time flies I guess
>>54745930
>Malware everywhere
Not if you were using a mac. I used the hell out of limewire through the early 00s and had zero malware issues. The most the stereotypical .mp3.exe bullshit ever did was just make me laugh because they didn't do shit under Mac OS.
>>54745930
>50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
>No 4chan
>No reddit
>Bad things
4chan is quite literally usenet. We have the same stupid flame-war type stuff like:
which editor should I use
my OS choice is better than your OS choice
this X language is harmful you should use y.
Only on Usenet we had a lot less freetards, but freetardism is just a trolling in a modern form.
>>54746405
>mfw hearing parents bedroom door open from down the hall while I'm ninjafapping to Tenchi Muyo pictures
>>54745758
IDK I'm from 94 , maybe if I was born 10 years back I would miss it.
>>54747428
Remember, 18 year old, if you're still here, that ageism is the last acceptable form of discrimination. It's the last acceptable label that we still allow people to put on others.
>Why didn't you hire him?
>He's black
lawsuit
>Why didn't you hire him?
>He's not a she
lawsuit
>Why didn't you hire him?
>He's too young
Perfectly acceptable! You will see some weasel/cocksucker words along with this to try to pretend it isn't discrimination:
>We feel that other companies will look at you and feel that we are hiring inexperienced people
"I'm not ageist, it's just everyone else is! (I'm a piece of shit)"
Bonus other funny part is that you're currently living in this quantum bullshit state:
>...We need a young person, they know how to do technology!
>hurr hurr u not old enuf (I'm a piece of shit)
Last bonus other funny part is that this is 4chan, we are anonymous, we are this way because we eliminate race, gender, looks etc... the posts are taken at face value and we don't mind anything... but not age! Fuck that! You're "allowed" to be on here if you're over 18 but must use the site in read-only mode until you are at a more acceptable age of 25, that I made up, because I am a piece of shit.
>>54747879
>Spazzing out this hard
Dude, shut the fuck up, no one cares. If you really wanna cry about it that much go post it on your tumblr.
>>54747634
I'd like to just point out that this is 99% of the posts in these types of threads. Just no reply, the same "the internet was innocent back then" hanging out there.
Goodness gracious, it was the same the entire time. YOU were the one that changed. I don't think some people are capable of understanding this.
haven't you ever heard that expression
>When you read a book again, you interpret it differently because you're older now
It never changed, you did.
Also,
>I remember my first web search
No you do not.
>I remember the good parts of my first web search.
>>54747879
they don't often outright say you're "too young/old" to avoid sounding offensive
but instead they say "inexperienced/over-qualified" (these can be valid points, but can also be used to avoid applicants based on age)
>>54747652
As good as fox news? Well that's only slightly better than MSNBC and CNN...damn it must suck ass over there if that's the best they can do
>>54747903
You still have no argument besides saying go back to tumblr
>>54746249
Porn.
>>54747879
4chan is full of content legally unsuitable for minors, don't blame 4chan for this rule
>>54747908
The Internet *was* innocent back then. Go read through the old BBS stories of days of yore on textfiles and you'll find a majorly huge difference in demeanor, humor, and overall view of the internet back then.
>No you do not.
I very much do, because computers were fucking expensive and my family didn't own one. Instead I had to use lab time at school and it was through that which I was able to get on the internet for the first time. Just because you're so jaded doesn't mean everyone else is.
>>54747939
This is a good reason why usenet is better than web forums; no centralized authority.
>>54746346
Have you had sex already?
>internet before memes
Jesus, Doc, this is heavy.
>>54747977
>Internet
>Before memes
Never heard of Hamster Dance? Or, god forbid, Dancing Baby?
Fuck the 90s.
The internet peaked in the mid-2000s.
>>54747159
hi stefan
>>54747939
Not at any point trying to defend anyone under 18 coming here as that is a explicit rule, we were talking about someone now moving the goalposts and moving that up to 25.
You guys should do this if you haven't already, I always get a kick out of it - look up generations.
Baby boomers are always anyone born from 1946 and 1964. NOTHING ELSE IS THIS CONCRETE.
Boomers = 1946 - 1964 for sure!
Gen X = 1960s - 1975?
Gen Y = 1980s - 1995??
Millenials (this is used 99% of the time as a four letter word please don't pretend it's not) - After 1995? After 2000? Who knows!
This one's the best because it's the current one. At first, it was anyone born after the millenium, that at least makes sense. Now some old people are all angry that they can't put labels on some people and move the goalposts and instead say, "You have to have been an adult BEFORE the millenium". What's an adult? 25 according to this thread. That means even if you were born in 1991 you could be a "millenial". What happened to Gen Y?
"Gen X" and "Gen Y" were the old labels that boomers made up to shit on anyone younger than them and are obsolete and have been replaced by something new. Notice how with every source you look up online, the boomer dates are concrete set in 1946 to 1964. Everything else is wishy washy because boomers started the whole thing. Nobody gives a fuck about this until you turn 40-50 and start getting bitter that you haven't accomplished anything, so you form an instant cop out by instead saying "millenials today right?"
In 20 years they'll say Gen Z'ers weren't really adults until 50 so anyone born 1986 or later is now instead a Gen Z'er.
>>54746653
SHUT
THE
FUCK
UP
>>54746127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
>Members of Generation Z are typically thought of as being comfortable with technology
Old people had to make up a new label because they can't into anything made in the past 30 years
>and interacting on social media websites for a significant portion of their socializing
"Kids these days and their internet socialising that *I* don't understand!"
>Australia's McCrindle Research Center defines Generation Z as those born between 1995–2009,A previous McCrindle report used 2001 as the starting point for this generation.
they don't even know
>Adweek defines Generation Z as those born in 1995 or later. Many other researchers also put the starting date for Generation Z at around the mid-1990s
I'm explicitly letting you know that this new generation starts right on this particular 5-7 year period
>Statistics Canada defines Generation Z as starting with the birth year 1993.
but wait we must shit on people not born yet
>call anyone born after 2010 a part of Generation Alpha.
Can't find what comes next online, nobody's been born yet for us to hate on. Assuming it's Beta.
so mr. 18 year old - depending on how old the sad sack of shit you're talking to is, you can be a Gen Y, Z, millennial all at once. But the sack of shit in question will always be a baby boomer born between certain made up concrete dates that were absolutely set in stone decades after the fact.
>>54747107
Why do faggots like you always have to ruin everything?
Piss off you negative millenial faggot
>>54748168
/g/ truly is the place to go for witnessing autism first hand.
>>54748204
If it makes you feel any better, the thread left alone goes like this:
>hey guys, what were the best years of the internet for you?
>1995!
>2005!
>autistic turn towards each other
>FUK U KID KID KID I WAS HERE FIRST ETC
By the way, hurling millenial doesn't really work anymore in this thread since by shitty boomer made up journalist logic definitions which end up as the written rules, everyone under 35 is one.
Now you're faced with the problem of being on 4chan and having to talk down to someone by calling them an Alpha.
>>54748210
>still no argument
>>54748168
>>54748274
off-topic shit
>>54747908
>it was the same the entire time.
No it fucking wasn't shut the fuck up
There was no Facebook back then
There was no Reddit back then
There was no Twitter back then
Now get off my lawn you filthy millenial
Cmon we aren't that old are we? ... g guys?
>>54748365
There was no 4chan back then. Back then, all we had to survive on were photoshopped pictures of Terminators wearing funny hats, posted on Something Awful.
>>54748261
Shut up you fucking nigger
You're so fucking annoying
Can't we have a nice Nostalgia Thread without faggots like your ruining everything
You won't convince us that the Internet was bad back then so why are you even in this thread when you can literally chose 30+ other threads to post in you fucking autist?
>>54748383
Good
The Internet was at it's best when it was alternative/2nd choice entertainment
Back then TV was still good
Now it's trash so the Internet has replaced it
>>54746113
HAHAHAHA. and how would you troubleshoot an overload buffer from ad spam you cuck?! Of course you had to know about serial to enjoy '97 internet.
>>54748425
I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm simply pointing out the sheer and utter precipatory facts. It's yours to do with how you react.
>>54748438
And I suppose you here think the meilianials conjugated the ob stract from '97 when 2002 is when TV hit the shitter. Fuckin' megaman and Petter. You think?
>>54745758
Nah, I find the idea of it to be cozy but I wouldn't go back to those days, especially after having a bit of renewed experience with them as a shitbox collector.
Designing a website to work with old browsers that can't tell a standard from their own metaphorical asshole is an awful experience.
>>54748043
Millennials are Gen Y. Gen Y was just a placeholder name. They say 1980-2000 or so, but it seems to more identifiably be people born from the mid-80s to mid 90s or so with the first few and last few years being on a cusp. I'd say by 84/85 you definitely aren't gen-X anymore and are millennial.
>>54745926
>powers that be police, censor you and fuck your rights in the name of muh pedophiles and terrorists
>you blame pedophiles and terrorists
Murrica everyone
>>54746713
>MTV
Oh, I get it now. You're trash normie scum.
>>54746713
>MTV
Oh, I get it now. You're trash normie scum.
>>54747879
This kind of sperg posting is why you're too young to post.
>>54747428
If you ever remember saying this after 45 you're going to laugh and feel very miserable inside at the same time
>>54746127
actually, reddit is the perfect middle ground between /pol/ and tumblr, which is good since both extremums are equally retarded, most of the people are p. okay, better than 4chink
it's just that their attempts of humor are cringeworthy, they're nice guys but they lack any balls tbqh
>There are people over 30 years old browsing 4chan
>>54748840
You realize people who are 30 now are Millennials and have grown up with the internet since they were kids right?
>>54748840
hi.
You're here forever, don't forget that
>>54748859
Get out of here grandpa.
>>54745758
Yes. I know I'm seeing it through rose tinted specs, but life seemed less terrible back then.
>tfw a 2 year old niglet in 1997.
>>54746713
>Pic related.
just because two websites used that badge doesn't mean he was wrong
>>54748883
>muh innocent childhood
feels good not being a failure tbf
>>54747772
always did wonder why oldschool Mac OS had so few viruses and shit
especially since it was just as insecure (and even less so even) as Windows was back in the day
like, sure, marketshare and all, but it was still a relatively big, untapped target
>>54746713
This entire post is wrong and you should feel bad for being this dumb.
>>54745758
if you went back what would you do anon?
I would become a cute girl 8D
Wasn't back then some site about some guy that wanted people to just give him money
And he got a lot of money
>>54748922
I would become your dad and fuck you're mom
>>54745758
https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=special_sauce
I was clicking on random sites and saw one that linked back to /g/, you're probably here somewhere too.
I miss the special feeling of going online.
You felt more invested, because you had to dial up, you had to wait for the connection and the website to load, you had to wait for emails to come through etc etc.
Now that we're online 24/7 and web pages can be opened, skimmed through in a second and forgotten, it just doesn't feel special anymore. I also hate that everything has become commercialised. Nobody is interested in looking at websites made by individuals, and nobody makes the effort to make them.
>>54748991
So true. A nobody could actually make money making webpages, I remember making a nice pay doing on for my school in the late 90's, I myself was still like in the 8th grade.
>>54748008
That site is from the late 90s though, and that is when it was at it's peak.
By 1997 I didn't have a computer and there were no cyber cafes in my area.
>>54745959
lol no
>>54745806
I was born in 1997 :^)
>>54746740
This.
>>54747242
Probably this.
>>54745930
>Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
Good. You didn't need to spend all your time on the internet.
>20 minutes to download a single song
It let you appreciate the music you had more instead of downloading a whole discography and only listening to a few songs.
>Low quality porn
Allowed you to use your imagination more.
>>54749174
This.
Back then a song would last you years. Now you get bored of it in a week.
>>54746136
Sound the SJW alarm, we got one!
>>54749181
I used to a have a meticulously curated MP3 collection. Now it's just, whatever, I'll just find it on youtube.
Isn't there some sort of back up for the Geocities/Angelfire websites? Those were the best. The old HTML4 frames made my day.
>>54745758
Miss it so much. I was born that year.
>>54749198
Same.
Even had one of those usb stick 256MB mp3 players that ran off a AAA battery for my songs.
>being able to carry my 60 favorite songs with me wherever I went
Shit was so cash
>>54749181
>>54749198
It's a little sad that most songs you downloaded from the late 90s to early 2000s will sound like shit now because MP3 encoders at the time were so bad and most people encoded music at 128kbps. When I listen to ancient music I downloaded years ago they have a bunch of static and it's noticible on earbuds/headphones that cost more than $5.
Music encoded to 128kbps on modern MP3 encoders like LAME sound pretty great though.
>>54745758
I couldn't google anything these days.
>>54747424
We're also different degrees of depressed.
I can't believe adults willingly do this bullshit for deeeccccaaaadddeeeeessss. Makes me want to hop on a ship to a developing country and start a farm or bar.
>>54745758
It's funny that even though internet connections was a lot slower back then, web 2.0 websites can feel like they take forever to load too. Even though I have a 75mbps connection, I still feel like I'm on dialup sometimes because bloated JavaScript websites take forever to load everything.
I actually prefer using plain HTML websites sometimes because they load instantly.
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
>>54746198
Oh look, it's completely dead.
>>54749263
Yeah, I still have a lot of MP3s from back then and you can hear really bad artifacting on some of them. I also made the mistake of re-encoding higher bitrate ones to 128kbps because I had so little hard disk space.
>>54746405
>>54747839
>mfw hearing mom put her key in the front door while I'm whacking off at family computer after school
>about ten seconds away from busting
>pants around ankles
>front door has a direct line of sight to the computer
>oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
>>54746243
8gagger detected
>>54746582
So the internet being slow, you not knowing how to use webrings, and technology being more expensive makes the 90's worse?
I will give you the first point regarding speed, but the more expensive tech you are whining about was far better built and that shit lasted forever even if it got dated sooner; not to mention it provided local jobs. Compare that to our modern throw away consumer grade tech made in third world countries, there was a reason shit costed more.
Now when you compare the issues of the 90s to our modern web issues you can easily see why people non ironically defend the internet as it was. In case you forgot here is a very small sample of the issues we face now:
>Mass surveillance
>Social media cancer
>Gentrification of content
>Content mills and click bait
>Erosion of anonymity and privacy
>Bloated web design loaded with scripts
>Advertising that stalks you
>Over legislation of the net (State level anti-hurt feeling laws, broadening of the CFAA between 2001-2008, DMCA, Patriot Act)
>Geofencing
>>54745871
They definitely had half a brain. Key word being 'half'. Most people were intelligent, but they used that intelligence in varied and sometimes weird ways.
Spelling was somehow worse though. I swear, it's like people never took classes for their mother tongue.
>>54749304
kids today will never understand the struggle of not being able to look at porn on a smartphone in a locked toilet
>>54746055
Can confirm, I was born in the early '90s and used to frequent chatrooms all the way until about 2009. I learned to touch type from chatrooms. It was gr8 and I kind of miss the experience even though it was a huge waste of time overall.
>>54749304
One time I was at the point of no return when I heard the front door. Had to cum in my hand and greet my parents with a pocketful of jizz as I made my way to the bathroom
>>54749316
>touch type from chatrooms
>not learning to touch type from RuneScape
>>54749312
I'm not sure if more people "had a brain" or not but people on the internet back then could have seemed more intelligent because there was way less kids with internet access. Also there wasn't as many third worlders on the internet because the cost of entry was higher since it was new technology. They had to wait for all the middle class/rich people in their country to throw out their old Pentium 4 PCs or for internet cafes to open.
>>54749312
I'm pretty sure spelling got better entirely because all the major browsers started including a spellchecker.
>>54749339
not that anon, but I didn't play runescape at all
pretty much learned to type because of constant IRC use though
>>54749324
HOLY SHIT.
I didn't even start fapping till I was 17. Late bloomer and shit.
By then I had my own laptop and was able to be discrete about it
>>54747285
>Shitting on IRC
Sorry my man but some people don't want botnets and voice chat. Can you name a better text based instant messaging protocol that can be hosted by your buds instead of on a private company server?
>>54745930
>Slow internet
Pages didn't load 1001 scripts and 30mb of images.
>Malware everywhere
lol no, that happened after the normies came.
>No adblockers
No ads.
>Shit browsers
You're waifu a shit.
>Horrid looking websites
Better than today's design memes.
>20 minutes to download a single song
>Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
tru
>Chatrooms
I still rep IRC bruh. I miss massive chatrooms.
>Low quality porn
People went to the porn shop back then.
>50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
Only if you were dumb.
>No 4chan
>No reddit
Good.
>>54746178
>People that weren't even born then are allowed to visit 4chan
>>54747638
>>Being 41~43
well shit there's just 14 years left until I'm 40
LIFE IS OVER
>>54745806
same senpai. i was 13 in 97 and having such an awesome time. now it is just pay bills, family, meetings, house work and every now and then I get to do something for myself to make life not totally awful
>I was 2 years old in 1997
>still, I've been lurking since 2009 which is longer than more than a half of anons here
I'm literally child of 4chan
>>54747285
You're chilling on the wrong channels.
>unwilling to change
Please give me a modern, text-based, interest-based, public real-time communication medium.
>>54748383
>the "everything was better when I was a kid" meme rears its ugly head again
Living in the past is unhealthy.
>>54748840
>there are people over 20 years old browsing 4chan
Grow the fuck up and get a life!!
>there are people browsing 4chan
fucking no-life pieces of shit
Of course, everyone had their own website and lots of communities to choose from. Now it's all controlled by a few "social" networks all controlled by porky.
>>54745758
Fuck that shit.
Around 1999, I downloaded a ZIP extractor from some download website. It looked pretty legit and worked pretty well. Well after a few weeks, my computer BSODs, then it literally wouldn't turn on anymore. Tried to insert boot diskettes, nothing ever came up. Ended up having to purchase a brand new computer.
Viruses you find on the web today are pretty bad, but viruses from the late 90s - early 00s are much, much worse.
>>54749297
indeed, 20 years ago you could browse the web on a 486 with a 14.4kbps modem just fine. all these js/jquery-infested modern websites take a long time to load on my 100mbps connection, and they're so heavy that the browser grinds to a halt even though I have a hex-core xeon and 12gb of ram.
>>54747908
I'm against nostalgia in general but saying the Internet was the same back then is utterly retarded.
>>54749313
>>54749324
Yeah, when I finally got a laptop of my own and moved out I was so fucking happy just to have the freedom to rock out with my cock out whenever I wanted. Of course now that I'm not an adolescent anymore it doesn't really mean anything to me, but 18 year old me was ecstatic.
Had a few close calls when I had a family computer, though. Thankfully I was able to get my pants up over my thighs at the speed of sound when mom came home from work early, so it at least didn't look quite as obvious. She didn't seem to notice, and if she did notice she didn't really care because at least she didn't find her son mid-orgasm.
>>54749339
I didn't fuck with Runescape. Didn't care then, don't care now.
No Wikipedia, school assignments. Emulators and roms. IRC.
My bitch sister telling me that I'm doing things wrong all the time, when I know exactly what I'm doing (she thought editing some config files for a stupid game meant editing system files and I would just break it, she thought we would have to pay extra bills for using IRC). I still like it better now.
>>54745758
I was 7. I didn't get my first PC til '99.
>>54749415
Sounds more like a shit driver. Windows 95 drivers and most 98 drivers used the VxD device driver model which allowed direct access to the hardware, that is why they BSODed so often. Shit drivers with direct hardware access.
XP was so stable in comparison because Windows 2000 and up dropped support for VxD and replaced it with WDM, which was introduced in windows 98. WDM has a buffer between the hardware and the driver.
>>54749518
Nah. A few years after the computer got wrecked I actually found out it was due to a virus called "Chernobyl" or some shit like that. The motherboard my old computer had was listed as vulnerable to the virus, and the time it was spreading around was consistent with when the computer got ruined.
Really nice to know this kind of shit can't happen anymore, at least.
>>54749575
Destructive viruses still exist, but they are less common as there is no financial gain. Hobby virus writers are mostly dead.
>>54749304
Fucking lost it
>>54747956
how do we go from talking about school and 1st grade straight to sex. jesus christ this board
I remember going to see Air Force One as a kid with mom and dad.
>>54749671
In America the brainwashing starts young
No. I'm not some hipster faggot who is drunk on nostalgiafaggotry.
>>54745806
same, I'd just got back into uni and was going to work hard and put unemployment behind me
yeah, that worked out well
the web was kinda meh then, searching was crap and no tabs on browsers - muds were fun tho
>takes 5 minutes to load an image
>if you want to visit a moderately heavy website you can go get coffee before it's done
fuck no
>>54749339
>not having some version of this as a kid
for real though, I got good at typing thanks to an even older mmo than runescape (NexusTK)
I remember going to see Air Force One as a kid with mom and dad.
>>54745806
The average 4chan poster was born in 1995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_video_gaming
>>54749360
Irc is massivly used lol
a lot of people use it daily without knowing
site like twitch as example use irc for the chat.
irc is useful fast and used in a different way nowadays
>>54749928
I was born in 95.
